Hi Darillyn,
I certainly agree with you that the baby has a big impact on how easy
relactation or induced lactation may be.....certainly though it's not the
only factor and in cases of relactation for a biological child many babies
in developing countries have been bottlefed and as a result are ill when
relactation is begun (and therefore may not have a lot of strength for
suckling- it is often when a child is admitted to hospital for treatment
that mothers are told about relactation), yet they do very well.
Breastfeeding Review should have a paper that discusses this out in March.
Karleen Gribble
Australia

> I think there are many reasons that mothers in traditional cultures, in
> which breastfeeding has remained the norm, tend to do so much better than
> mothers in industrialized, bottlefeeding cultures, at inducing lactation.
> One specific one is certainly the fact that the babies usually know how to
> nurse effectively.

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